Men Quotes

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

Credit is a young man's capital.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.